CNN Exclusive: Feds Play Audio Recording at Hearing for Hutaree Militia Members

In a secretly recorded audiotape, the alleged ringleader of an anti-government Michigan militia expresses anger over the “new world order” and the “brotherhood,” of law enforcement officers.

“In this nation, we think we are free, but you need a certificate to be born, a license to drive, a permit to build, a number to get a job and even a paper after you die,” says David Bryan Stone Sr., 45, the alleged head of the Hutaree militia, accused of conspiring to overthrow the government and plotting to kill police officers.

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“These are permission slips from the terrorists organization called the new world order,” Stone says in the tape, which was recorded clandestinely by an FBI agent who infiltrated the militia and obtained exclusively by CNN.

Government prosecutors played the recording during an April 2 bond hearing for alleged Hutaree members, arguing that the defendants would be a danger to the community and a flight risk if they were freed on bail before trial.